Self-derogation and peer approval of drug abuse amongst male secondary school students

Taymoori, Parvaneh; Nadrian, Haidar; Fallahi, Arezoo; Nouri, Bijan

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Self-derogation and peer approval of drug abuse amongst male secondary school students

Parvaneh Taymoori

¹, Haidar Nadrian²

, Arezoo Fallahi³

, Bijan Nouri⁴

1- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Department of Public Health, School of Health, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, , parvaneh.tay@gmail.com
2- Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
3- Department of Public Health, School of Health, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
4- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran

Abstract: (5342 Views)

Substance use among teenagers appears to be more a function

of peer approval and peer drug use. This study examined the

relationship between adolescents’ self-derogation and their

responses to Peers’ Approval of Drug Abuse (PADA) among

male secondary school students. In this study, 3000 students

to the 9

grade secondary schools completed a self-report

questionnaire consisting of self-derogation/rejection and peer

drug abuse approval measure. About 86% of students announced,

most of their peers disapproved of the people using drugs, the

higher the grade levels of the respondents, the higher their level

of self-derogation and approval of drug abuse. The relationships

were found between grade level and self-derogation, and also

PADA. Grade of the students and their responses to Approval

of Drug Abuse had statistically significant effects on the sense

of self-derogation among the students. Our findings supported

the higher the level of self-derogation amongst the students by

grade level, the higher the level of their positive response to

PADA. Significant differences were found in the student’s self-

derogation by PADA suggest that and self-derogation and PADA

are two factors that might precede drug dependency among this

sample of male students.

Keywords

Adolescents, Drug Abuse, Peer Approval, Self-Derogation

Keywords: .Adolescents, Drug Abuse, Peer Approval

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Type of Study: Orginal Article | Subject: ● Psychosocial Health
Received: 2015/10/20 | Accepted: 2016/04/25 | Published: 2016/04/26

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